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Yearly Archives: 2011
The definitive guide of who should go on a project management course
I run project management courses for many different organisations and it never ceases to amaze me that people who come along to one of our courses do not know why they are on the course or they are wondering when they will pick up their first project. Just last week I had two people on the course who asked me … Read More
“Great news; project budget increased!”
In the immortal words of Victor Meldrew I do not believe it (British humour at its best!). £7million per HOUR for the London Olympics opening and closing ceremonies. This was the headline in The Mail Online The Telegraph on line quoted a cost of £250,000 per day to keep the Olympic site secure with The Guardian suggesting London 2012 Olympics … Read More
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Tagged increased budget, olympic games, olympics, project budget
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Project management methodologies – they are only guidelines
#PMCHAT is a weekly, on-line chat for Twitterers (hopefully the right term) all over the world. Anyone who is on Twitter can join in. It starts with a pre-game show where a featured person comes on – line and talks about the topic of the week. It is held every Friday though not this week as its Thanksgiving and starts … Read More
Risk Happens – Managing Risk & Avoiding Failure in Business Projects
In this book author Mike Clayton brings together I believe many of the ideas and practices that will help you and your company identify and manage risks in projects. What makes it so different from other books on this topic is that Mike uses very practical rather than academic approaches to project risks. Practical approaches – there are well over … Read More
Brasington’s Laws of Project Management
I have just started to read Mike Clayton’s Book: Risk Happens (review out soon). In the book, Mike mentions Brasington’s Laws. On enquiring the origin of these, Mike pointed to Herding Cats Blog from last year. It’s worth a read and there are lessons in his ‘laws’ Photo by Salvatore Vuono‘s portfolio is at http://www.freedigitalphotos.net/images/view_photog.php?photogid=659
Bring out your dead (projects)
To the tune of funereal music………the procession was not too long, but long enough for the company to realise that: there were unfinished projects lurking in the reaches of the business that needed to be killed off project sponsors had little knowledge what was and what was not being worked on (this of course improved with this ‘bring out your … Read More
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